tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81001749115774537162018-03-06T00:58:21.296-08:00eLearning Team BlogeLearning Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05695905203841394304noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-53397852784286398832014-03-25T16:13:00.000-07:002014-03-25T16:13:15.903-07:00Animated videos and presentationsIf you want to add some "pizazz" to videos or presentations, <a href="http://powtoon.com/" target="_blank">PowToon</a> seems a very easy to use and not costly tool to do that. The free version will allow for a 5 minute video. Please check it out, and be ready to spend&nbsp; some time playing with it, it will be time well spent though...<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ldY3USp8I8g?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>NISnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-78835285063942610332014-03-25T15:54:00.002-07:002014-03-25T15:57:40.621-07:00Create collections of web resourcesThere are two tools that I explored to create playlists of useful web resources:<br /><ul><li><ol><li><a href="http://www.lessonpaths.com/" target="_blank">Mentor Mob or Lesson Paths</a> An easy way to create a path to web resources on any topic. Visually attractive results too.I am pasting a Lesson Playlist created by someone on blended learning below. </li></ol><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.lessonpaths.com//learn/widget/189910/580/99cc33/3-0" style="-moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; background: #99cc33; border-radius: 10px; height: 248px; overflow: hidden; width: 580px;"></iframe><br /><div style="padding: 2px 0 0 10px;">Create your own Playlist on <a href="http://www.lessonpaths.com/">LessonPaths!</a><br /><br />2.&nbsp; <a href="http://blendspaces.com/" target="_blank">Blendspaces </a>This one uses different words (create a lesson) for a similar approach (create a playlist). Equally easy to use and a little more robust in application sharing and a very nice visual result as well.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="550" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/DoAXv1dpbiVXxA/copy-of-flipped-classroom-training-resources?feature=embed" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="800"></iframe></div></li></ul>NISnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-5288791199627663142013-02-05T08:59:00.001-08:002013-06-13T08:18:22.084-07:00Slidetalk. converts slides. to video. with text. to voice.Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to share your PowerPoint slides publicly online? Ok, so it's already possible to do that via <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">SlideShare</a>. But what if you want to add voice recording? Ok, ok, <a href="http://voicethread.com/" target="_blank">VoiceThread</a> already allows that, too. But what if you don't want to record your own voice? What if you can't?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.slidetalk.net/" target="_blank">SlideTalk</a> provides a special solution for this issue. Users can upload their slides, add narrative text for each slide, and share a public, narrated video of their PowerPoint with text-to-voice speech technology.<br /><br />If this sounds too good to be true. wait. until. you. listen. to the. demo. video. below. Text. to-speech. technology. has come. a long. way. but it. still. leaves much. to be. desired. Imagine. listening. to. your. presentation. narrated. like an. emergency. weather. update: "During. Phase. Two. of our. project. we. implemented. the. following. steps. with. // ...thunderstorms. and the possibility. of. nickel. sized. hail. in Macoupin. and Ford. Counties... // ...and. this. table. shows. our data. results..."<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QOKuhtwLRZI" width="560"></iframe> <br />Don't get me wrong -- this service could definitely be useful for a demographic of users who want to provide narrated lecture videos and lack the software necessary for recording (or are too shy to record) their own videos.<br /><br />However, people who can record their own voiceover narrations probably should do so. If the point of recording a lecture with your slides is to make them more engaging for viewers, SlideTalk unfortunately falls a bit short of this goal. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.slidetalk.net/" target="_blank">Learn more about SlideTalk here &gt;&gt;</a><br /><br /><a href="http://elearningindustry.com/publishing-powerpoint-presentations-online-the-rapid-way" target="_blank">Find a second opinion on the service via eLearning Industry &gt;&gt;</a>Anne McKinneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12007371024704589932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-36045423450944827762013-01-15T15:36:00.002-08:002013-01-15T15:37:07.096-08:00Sizes for images and visuals in social media and other placesWhen we have to embed a video or post an image in Compass 2g (AKA Blackboard Learn) or in a website, we try to follow the 640x480 or lower.<br />This website provides sizing for those types of embeds that can be used in social media but in course embeds as well. I am happy to have this information, i will be using it a lot!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/11/12/final-social-media-sizing-cheat-sheet/?goback=.gde_4640982_member_204443721">http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/11/12/final-social-media-sizing-cheat-sheet/?goback=.gde_4640982_member_204443721</a><br /><br />NISnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-17494827698162272832012-11-15T11:25:00.001-08:002012-11-16T00:07:55.915-08:00Using Popcorn Maker to Edit Online Videos<a href="https://popcorn.webmaker.org/" target="_blank">Popcorn Maker</a> is an online video editing tool that allows users to edit online videos and add multimedia-rich content.The following video provides a demonstration of what is possible:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="403" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/r7_" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="640"></iframe> <br />I've attempted to create a test video in Popcorn maker using a video I already own and share on YouTube. A few observations:<br /><ul><li>It's important that the video is already publicly online, because that's the only way to import it into the editor; there is no Upload option.</li><li>There is a bit of a learning curve for users who don't do a lot of editing. I found that I could add text, but I couldn't change the color from the default black -- there is a box to enter a number code to change the font color, but no color wheel or swatch sampler to let me pick a different color. I was able to add a shadow behind the black letters, but even so they aren't always visible against the background.</li><li>Some prior knowledge of video editing is also helpful to understanding the timeline and how to arrange layers of text and images on top of videos. This resource may not be for beginners, unless they are willing to spend some time self-instructing by experimentation.</li><li>Once I added something that I wanted to remove, the only way I could find to do this was to move the item to a new layer and then delete the layer.&nbsp;</li><li>Twitter option: This seems to give the option of posting a person's feed or search terms, but I couldn't get it to display either. It's possible that it displays differently after the work is saved, but I also wished that I could embed a single specific tweet rather than a feed or ticker of multiple tweets.</li><li>There doesn't seem to be a way to trim the length of videos. I was able to pause this one and then skip to the very end, but I couldn't cut the section I wanted to remove.</li></ul>My Popcorn maker video:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="358" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/48b_" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="560"></iframe> <br /><br />All in all, it's a fun resource, but not as robust as software like Camtasia (my current favorite). It does, however, get points for adding social media content like Google Maps and Wikipedia (though Twitter is not yet as functional as the other two).Anne McKinneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12007371024704589932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-52543741654929580892012-10-19T10:13:00.001-07:002012-10-19T10:13:17.807-07:00A Few Useful eLearning ResourcesThis past weekend at the 2012 Ubiquitous Learning conference, I attended a session by Mark A. Woolwine, who showcased several online resources for use in education. Several of them were already familiar to me, but there were just as many that were not.<br /><br />The following is a selection of resources from Woolwine's presentation, "Engaging Students with a Mosaic of Technology" that might be new and useful to eLearning instructors:<br /><br /><b>To Share with Students -- </b><br /><br /><b>Cramberry</b> - <a href="https://cramberry.net/">https://cramberry.net/</a> <br />A free online flash card tool for students. Students can make their own flash cards or use ones that are already available on the side, then see their progress. The free account allows students to study 30 cards per day.<br /><br /><b>My StudentBook </b>- <a href="http://mystudentbook.com/">http://mystudentbook.com/</a><br />StudentBook is a free application to help students manage assignments, exam dates, and grades.<br /><br /><br /><b>Time Management / Organization --</b><br /><br /><b>Sandglaz </b>- <a href="http://www.sandglaz.com/">http://www.sandglaz.com/</a><br />This is yet another free-with-basic-options time-management app, not specific to students but more general for anyone looking to boost productivity.<br /><br /><b>Wunderlist </b>- <a href="http://www.wunderlist.com/">http://www.wunderlist.com/</a><br />Another free task management app, with desktop, mobile, and web-based versions.<br /><br /><br /><b>Concept Mapping and Collaboration --</b><br /><br /><b>Concept Board</b> - <a href="http://conceptboard.com/">http://conceptboard.com/</a><br />This service allows for real-time group collaboration on concept mapping and other documents. There is a free 30-day trial, but then users need to pay an annual account fee.<br /><br /><b>Creately </b>- <a href="http://creately.com/">http://creately.com/</a><br />This is another concept mapping tool that allows users to create online diagrams, flow charts, etc. The free version has more limited options.<br /><br /><b>LucidChart</b> - <a href="https://www.lucidchart.com/">https://www.lucidchart.com/</a><br />This is another concept-mapping tool that lets collaborators work on a diagram in real time. it's free for a 14-day trial and then has a monthly fee.<br /><br /><b>Vyew </b>- <a href="http://vyew.com/s/">http://vyew.com/s/</a><br />This is another real-time collaboration platform. Users can work share documents, multimedia, etc. in a shared space. Free with limited real-time users.<br /><br /><br /><b>Lesson Plans &amp; Testing -- </b><br /><br /><b>Lesson Plan It</b> - <a href="http://lessonplan.it/">http://lessonplan.it/</a><br />This is a free online lesson plan builder.<br /><br /><b>McScoring </b>- <a href="http://www.mcscoring.com/">http://www.mcscoring.com/</a><br />This is a web app that lets teachers create an online form for simple multiple choice tests. Test questions and other information will need to be provided separately, but this makes it easy for instructors to process test scores.<br /><br /><br /><b>Visually Powerful -- </b><br /><br /><b>Graph.tk</b> - <a href="http://graph.tk/">http://graph.tk/</a><br />This is an online, open-source graphing utility, apparently. The link goes directly to a graph with a small formula box and no explanatory text.<br /><br /><b>SlideRocket</b> - <a href="http://www.sliderocket.com/">http://www.sliderocket.com/</a><br />This is an impressive multimedia-rich presentation builder/social sharing platform for people who want to move beyond PowerPoint, free-with-basic-options. There is also a free iPad app.<br /><br /><b>BioDigital Human </b>- <a href="https://www.biodigitalhuman.com/home/">https://www.biodigitalhuman.com/home/</a><br />This application may not be terribly useful in the College of Business, but it looks cool. BioDigital Human is a 3D platform to help students understand anatomy and medicine in a virtual simulation.Anne McKinneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12007371024704589932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-58805983948615724342012-05-31T18:56:00.001-07:002012-08-24T07:51:31.231-07:00Camtasia automatic captioning?<br />The issue of creating captions is something that comes up very frequently and we would like to have all videos captioned but it will take a huge amount of time. Now Camtasia offers the possibility of automatic captioning bu using the Speech-to-text feature, which automatically&nbsp;creates captions from voice narration or audio&nbsp;on the timeline. It has to be trained, and can only be used in the PC, but i think it is a good solution, if the instructor uses his / her own PC to create the mini lectures with Camtasia.<br />Here a tutorial on how to do it:<br /><embed src="http://assets.techsmith.com/videos/ua-tutorials-camtasiaStudio-07/caption-series-speech-to-text.mp4" width="640" height="396" autoplay="false" controller="true" type="video/quicktime" scale="tofit" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"> </embed> <br /><span id="goog_1144268622"></span><span id="goog_1144268623"></span>NISnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-77001481518925252082012-05-31T12:11:00.000-07:002012-05-31T12:48:14.557-07:00Peer reviewsCreating surveys for peer review seems to be a task that many faculty find themselves immersed into at one point of the year, especially when team assignments are an important part of every students' grade. UCLA decided to make it easier for all, and they have created a site that allows users to create peer reviews... Prof. Sachdev shared with me the site, and it think it deserves a closer look... some instructors may find it really useful.<br /><br /><a href="http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/" target="_blank">http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/ </a>NISnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-72034734179303965202012-05-31T10:05:00.000-07:002012-05-31T12:48:34.589-07:00Customizing embedded YouTube videos with EmbedPlus<div class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.embedplus.com/" target="_blank">EmbedPlus</a> is a service that promises to enhance the way that YouTube videos display when they are embedded on a page. For users who intend to embed videos in WordPress, there is a WordPress-specific plugin that can be installed onto the blog's dashboard. For all other uses, the application on the EmbedPlus website itself walks users through the process of customizing the embedded content.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br /></div><div class="MsoPlainText">I tested this out with the following video from <i>The Lizzie Bennet Diaries</i>, a YouTube-based vlog adaptation of <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>:</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object data="http://getembedplus.com/embedplus.swf" height="332" id="ep6284" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="430"><param value="http://getembedplus.com/embedplus.swf" name="movie" /> <param value="high" name="quality" /> <param value="transparent" name="wmode" /> <param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess" /> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen" /> <param name="flashvars" value="ytid=KisuGP2lcPs&width=430&height=300&start=&stop=&hd=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=" /> <iframe class="cantembedplus" title="YouTube video player" width="430" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KisuGP2lcPs?" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></object> </div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br /></div><div class="MsoPlainText">Since our eLearning Team blog is hosted by Blogspot, I used the web application of EmbedPlus. First, it asked me to enter in the video's URL. Then, I had to check whether I intended to post the code on a WordPress blog (if "yes", the page gives instructions for installing the WordPress plugin).</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br /></div><div class="MsoPlainText">The next step involves selecting customizable options for the embedded video:&nbsp;</div><ul><li>video size</li><li>start/stop time -- which would be handy if you want viewers to skip ahead to a specific timestamp rather that viewing the entire video</li><li>scene markers -- perhaps more useful for longer videos, or important points within a lecture</li><li>real-time reactions -- which displays pop-up comments on the video from YouTube, Digg, Twitter, and Reddit</li><li>annotations -- this adds annotated notes at specific points within the video</li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MAuz6k5oLSc/T8ehgz0ctII/AAAAAAAAAI0/ypUTYofDv9Q/s1600/EmbedPlusscreenshot.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="227" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MAuz6k5oLSc/T8ehgz0ctII/AAAAAAAAAI0/ypUTYofDv9Q/s320/EmbedPlusscreenshot.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screenshot of the EmbedPlus Options window</td></tr></tbody></table>Of any of these functions, the scene markers and annotations might be the most useful to embedded video lectures in online courses. I doubt the usefulness of the real-time reactions option, but left it checked in the above video for curiosity's sake.<br /><br />At this time I still have not tested the WordPress plugin version of this service, and depending on how the video displays on this blog, it may or may not be worth further investigation for use in eLearning. Still, the customizable display options seem to be potentially useful. I'm looking forward to testing its functionality with real lecture recordings. <br /><div class="MsoPlainText"><br /></div><a href="http://www.embedplus.com/" target="_blank">EmbedPlus online service</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.404techsupport.com/2012/05/improve-youtube-embedding-with-embedplus-in-wordpress-and-phpbb/" target="_blank">Explanatory blog post by 404 Tech Support</a>Anne McKinneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12007371024704589932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-31194391513508264322012-04-11T11:54:00.002-07:002012-04-11T16:28:55.621-07:00New Synchronous Collaboration Tool: Co-Meeting<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6271KzpPi_4" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />Co-Meeting is a new real-time collaboration tool with multiple features like document storage, to-do lists, meeting minutes, etc. <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5899346/co+meeting-is-google-wave+inspired-group-collaboration-tool">Lifehacker is touting it as a replacement for people who miss Google Wave</a> (which may be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the way you felt about Wave).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.co-meeting.com/">Co-Meeting</a><br /><br /><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5899346/co+meeting-is-google-wave+inspired-group-collaboration-tool">via Lifehacker</a>Anne McKinneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12007371024704589932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-6986124170475858422012-04-11T08:53:00.001-07:002012-04-11T16:28:11.796-07:00Statistics for Plagiarism<a href="http://turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/plagiarism_report.php"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730172521489163602" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OVv1YPVAD9Q/T4WpjG0Q5VI/AAAAAAAAAIg/yDIGdJ_zXGg/s320/TurnitinInfographic.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 219px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />The plagiarism-checking company <a href="http://turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/plagiarism_report.php">Turnitin has recently published an infographic</a> that shows statistics for students' plagiarism of online sources.<br /><br />The graphic compares statistics for unoriginal content by both secondary and higher education students, and how those rates have grown over the past few years. Unsurprisingly, Wikipedia is among the most plagiarized sources. At the college level, however, more and more students are copying and pasting content from social media sources than anywhere else -- including the popular academic site <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">SlideShare</a>.<br /><br />If you are at all curious about plagiarism in higher education, this infographic is worth a glance.<br /><a href="http://turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/plagiarism_report.php"><br />View the larger version of the infographic here &gt;&gt;</a><br /><br />Via the <a href="http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/plagiarism-web-sources-for-unoriginal-content/">Don't Waste Your Time blog &gt;&gt;</a>Anne McKinneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12007371024704589932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-43486525837685352242012-04-11T08:43:00.001-07:002012-04-11T16:26:44.879-07:00Engaging students in interaction during InternshipsFinding ways, by which students can stay connected with their mentor and class mates when completing their internship will result in a more engaged experience and enhanced learning. Some of the most frequent requirements for students to stay in touch with their supervisor, instructor or mentor, is to maintain email communication, or to exchange notes, or to write one or several reports and/or present their experience at the end via a paper or oral presentation. <b> </b><br /><b>Are these traditional communication techniques still the best way to engage students and create a more permanent memory and reflection of the time as intern?</b> <span class="fullpost"></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal">In a time when social networks are an important part of every student's life, it makes sense to use one of the social networking systems available to allow peer collaboration, live or timely sharing of experiences, peer feedback and social learning.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The following table presents other options that can be used to engage students when they are doing an internship. If you have other ideas about how to engage students while they are in their internships, please share them via comments in this blog. </div><br /><br /><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td style="background-color: #f9cb9c; border: 1pt solid windowtext; color: #444444; padding: 0in 5.4pt; text-align: center; width: 0.95in;" valign="top" width="91"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SYSTEM </span></b></div></td> <td style="-moz-border-bottom-colors: none; -moz-border-image: none; -moz-border-left-colors: none; -moz-border-right-colors: none; -moz-border-top-colors: none; background-color: #f9cb9c; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; color: #444444; padding: 0in 5.4pt; text-align: center; width: 115.05pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">FEATURES </span></b></div></td> <td style="-moz-border-bottom-colors: none; -moz-border-image: none; -moz-border-left-colors: none; -moz-border-right-colors: none; -moz-border-top-colors: none; background-color: #f9cb9c; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; color: #444444; padding: 0in 5.4pt; text-align: center; width: 94.65pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ADVANTAGES </span></b></div></td> <td style="-moz-border-bottom-colors: none; -moz-border-image: none; -moz-border-left-colors: none; -moz-border-right-colors: none; -moz-border-top-colors: none; background-color: #f9cb9c; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; color: #444444; padding: 0in 5.4pt; text-align: center; width: 103.7pt;" valign="top" width="138"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">DISADVANTAGES </span></b></div></td> <td style="-moz-border-bottom-colors: none; -moz-border-image: none; -moz-border-left-colors: none; -moz-border-right-colors: none; -moz-border-top-colors: none; background-color: #f9cb9c; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; color: #444444; padding: 0in 5.4pt; text-align: center; width: 97pt;" valign="top" width="129"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">RECOMMENDED WHEN....</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td> </tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .95in;" valign="top" width="91"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Public Blog</b><b> </b> </span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 115.05pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Works as a journal</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Instructor may provide open instructions or create a guide or key questions that students will use to follow in their postings. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.65pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1- Students can post updates to their work and the system will order it chronologically</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2- They can receive and moderate other people comments</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3- It is in the public domain, access over the internet should not be a problem</span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.7pt;" valign="top" width="138"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1- a blog is good for journaling but lacks the tools that a course management system will have such as discussion board, dropbox or file sharing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2- Being in the public domain may be a challenge, names or other data should not be mentioned, public blogs are easily found and indexed by search engines. </span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.0pt;" valign="top" width="129"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">interns are required to provide updates of their work, without other information sharing. </span></div></td> </tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td style="-moz-border-bottom-colors: none; -moz-border-image: none; -moz-border-left-colors: none; -moz-border-right-colors: none; -moz-border-top-colors: none; background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.95in;" valign="top" width="91"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Private Blog (i.e. University of Illinois hosted blog)</span></b></div></td> <td style="background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 115.05pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Same as above</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.65pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Same as above except (3)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3- Because it has restricted access by others, interns may share more information and feel better to provide honest peer reviews</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.7pt;" valign="top" width="138"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1- Same as 1- above</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div></td> <td style="background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97pt;" valign="top" width="129"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Same as above</span></div></td> </tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .95in;" valign="top" width="91"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Wiki/ google docs</span></b></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 115.05pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Works as a web page. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Organization can be customized by the user: By topics, by dates, by questions, etc. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.65pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Students will create a web page about their experience. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2- the webpage can last after the program and can become part of their portfolio</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. they can receive comments</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. it may be public or not</span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.7pt;" valign="top" width="138"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If the interest is chronological account of events, this is not the best solution.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.0pt;" valign="top" width="129"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The goal is to have a document that will reflect the work during internship, with a customized structure according to the user. Instead of having only a set of chronological posts as in a Journal. </span></div></td> </tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td style="-moz-border-bottom-colors: none; -moz-border-image: none; -moz-border-left-colors: none; -moz-border-right-colors: none; -moz-border-top-colors: none; background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.95in;" valign="top" width="91"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Learning Management System (Moodle, Compass 2G) </span></b></div></td> <td style="background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 115.05pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Has multiple features hosted in one same place:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.Blog or Wiki, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.Discussion forum for interaction</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Document sharing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Peer assessment and / or ratings</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. surveys and other poll or assessment tools</span></div></td> <td style="background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.65pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Allows multiple ways for interaction</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. is private, so privacy settings will not be an issue</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div></td> <td style="background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.7pt;" valign="top" width="138"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. will not be available indefinitely when the student graduates </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. can only be temporarily part of the student’s portfolio</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Cannot be shared with outsiders as is because it will contain information about other people as well. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div></td> <td style="background-color: #fce5cd; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 97pt;" valign="top" width="129"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The goal is to have multiple ways of interaction with the student during a finite time (the duration of the semester).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div></td> </tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .95in;" valign="top" width="91"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Facebook or LinkedIn (or other social networking option) </span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 115.05pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Has limited feature for interaction and sharing, but are embedded in the students’ daily communication habits</span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.65pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. User friendly systems for interaction and communication</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. May have options for privacy settings. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3- Works as an organizer by topic or by date</span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.7pt;" valign="top" width="138"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1- If not private or closed group, may result in a disorganized recollection of events and reflections. </span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 97.0pt;" valign="top" width="129"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The group of interns has more than 5 participants, who are used to social networking sites, and enjoy working in that environment.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Anne McKinneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12007371024704589932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-5795827161457090052012-04-03T11:31:00.000-07:002012-04-11T16:25:42.744-07:00Free Q&A platform<a href="http://piazza.com/features" target="_blank">Piazza</a> is a question-and-answer platform designed to communicate with your students or colleagues fast. I think it looks like a web 2.0 version of WebBoard, (remember that?). <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6W3FGaJsW8U/T3tBdYtxHsI/AAAAAAAAGUs/63QvvfSjRwo/s1600/piazza.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Piazza.com" border="0" height="77" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6W3FGaJsW8U/T3tBdYtxHsI/AAAAAAAAGUs/63QvvfSjRwo/s200/piazza.PNG" title="Piazza.com" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The system makes it easy to enroll participants, you can suggest that you only want illinois.edu accounts if your participants have your same affiliation. The instructor may enable 'anonymous' posts too. It has a unique way of handling participants' responses in the sense that it allows multiple responses or only one student answer, in which case the students edit the existing response and have to add to it. And there is a "followup" feature that can be used when responses or questions are not clear or a new thread needs to be added. Posts can also be tagged so that it is easier to find them, and formatting is very simple. I hope you find interesting uses for this platform. I will be testing it with the team and we will have some comments after our testing.NISnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-23121736849456431262012-01-03T11:05:00.000-08:002012-04-03T13:00:31.571-07:00Editing or clipping YouTube VideosI found that the following sites may be of good help for an instructor trying to clip or use part of a youTube video. The first three provide similar functionality: clipping and providing embed code for a clip in an existing youtube video. They are: <br />1) TubeChop:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.tubechop.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tubechop.com/</a><br />2)Splicd: <a href="http://www.splicd.com/" target="_blank">http://www.splicd.com/</a><br />The last one offers more options for editing and interacting with videos. It is called "embed.plus" <a href="http://www.embedplus.com/" target="_blank">http://www.embedplus.com</a> and it promises more functions than the other three....<br /><br />I tested them with this "Milonga"<br />ORIGINAL POST IN YOUTUBE:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/vzPQS5xbTe4?feature=player_embedded' FRAMEBORDER='0' /></div><br /><br />1) One minute edit with Tubechop<br /><b>Example</b>:<a href="http://www.tubechop.com/watch/318894" target="_blank"> http://www.tubechop.com/watch/318894</a><br /><b>Tutorial</b>:&nbsp; <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/6HPxY77muZ4?feature=player_embedded' FRAMEBORDER='0' /></div><br /><br />2) One minute edit with Splicd<br /><b>Example</b>:<a href="http://splicd.com/vzPQS5xbTe4/150/210%20" target="_blank"> http://splicd.com/vzPQS5xbTe4/150/210 </a><br /><br />Submit your comments if you try them... or if you know of others. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />NISnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-51572393503448476152011-05-13T14:10:00.000-07:002011-05-13T14:15:46.726-07:00Snap! by LectoraSnap! makes it easy to record audio and video narration for your Powerpoint presentations. It also lets you create interactive quizzes and surveys.<br /><br />You can export the result as either a standalone Flash presentation for use on any web site, or a SCORM module that can be imported into just about any course management system.<br /><br />It's very similar to Adobe Presenter, except that it costs only $99 rather than $500.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.trivantis.com/snap/free-powerpoint-and-e-learning-tools-trial">Free trial here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://business.illinois.edu/elearning/hursh/SnapDemo/index.html">Demo by me here</a>.Tony Hurshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-5326104052201676852010-12-14T09:42:00.000-08:002011-03-30T07:03:01.621-07:00Taming the eBook hydra with CalibreIt seems that every technology creates a standards war: VHS/Beta, Windows/Mac -- even technology that's been around as long as the automobile still hasn't attained universal agreement about which is the proper side of the road for driving.<br /><br />The ebook is no different: there are many competing formats and (putative) standards, and every player in the market seems to have settled on a different one. This becomes even more confusing if you have more than one device which can display ebooks (e.g., an Amazon Kindle and a smart phone) or a device that can display more than one format (e.g., an iPad which can run the Kindle app as well as using Apple's own native ebook format).<br /><br /><a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/">Calibre</a>, a free and open source package, can help. Calibre organizes your ebooks into a searchable database, will display most common formats, and will even convert one format to another. It will also sync your book collection to your device, and has a nifty packaging feature that lets you convert web feeds into ebooks for later reading on your mobile device.Tony Hurshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-71151819557064751622010-12-10T08:36:00.000-08:002011-03-30T07:03:34.654-07:00Transcriptions and Captions - what a headache....<a href="http://universalsubtitles.org/">Universal Subtitles</a> claims that they have " built the easiest way to subtitle videos. Add our subtitling widget to your video (or your site) and click the "subtitle me" button. The rest is simple! Totally free, and no software to download"&nbsp; I saw that it is really easy to use, you select a URL, the video start playing and you start typing. It will wait if you are deleting or stopping, so that you can catch up, and then it will start after a few seconds if you are not typing, so that you can continue. It will start from a few seconds before so you can check what you just typed. Then it provides a very easy way to sync and play and re edit.<br />The design for entering text is very good and easy to use. However, (there is always a "however", when will the perfect tool be created?) there are some limitations:<br />1- It will not take any video format, for example, it does not like .wmv<br />2- You can edit several things but you cannot move or decide where you want the captioning text to show.<br />3- It places the caption not at the bottom but a little above the bottom, so even if you have left some space for captioning, it will cover the text in the movie, unless you use only one line.. and even in that case it is too high for my preference.<br />The concept and the project are worth exploring further, they share their code, it is built in HTML5 and Javascript, it is web based, and let you download the script in different formats. Their tutorials are also easy to follow.<br /><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/make-videos-accessible-with-universal-subtitles/29310">The Chronicle this morning </a>has an article about them and they also talk about <a href="http://www.scripto.org/">Scripto</a>, another one in my list....<br /><br />Let me know if you give US a try!NISnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-79281288843914962032010-12-03T12:52:00.000-08:002011-03-30T07:04:01.180-07:00Wormhole, another web conferencing systemI tested the <a href="http://www.wormholeit.com/">Wormhole IT</a> web conferencing system today and was very impressed with the quality of video and audio by multiple users. The system offers what most web conferencing systems have: Recording capabilities, Document sharing, screen sharing, Audio, Video (both for multiple users), whiteboard, and chat. It also provides options for document sharing such as: share in the whiteboard, download as pdf (no matter what your original format is) and download in original format. The host decides how to share the documents. This screenshot shows the conference area, with feature icons on top, whiteboard, participants list on the right, chat at the bottom, and one of the presenters' video.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zb-YgS3uK8U/TPlYPVyiT8I/AAAAAAAAFYY/HIEOuVRrGaM/s1600/wormhole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zb-YgS3uK8U/TPlYPVyiT8I/AAAAAAAAFYY/HIEOuVRrGaM/s320/wormhole.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />&nbsp;It is not free or open source. I understand that the cost is way below its competitors (Elluminate and A. Connect) although their production quality is as good as the others we have tested.NISnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-36857484964678480202010-08-13T12:32:00.001-07:002011-03-30T07:04:15.210-07:00Collaborative writingUsing <a href="http://typewith.me/">http://typewith.me</a> it is possible to type with others in a same document.<br /><br /><center><iframe height="400" src="http://typewith.me/876bSAM5M9" width="600"></iframe></center>NISnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-60328773499604020132010-08-02T11:26:00.000-07:002011-03-30T07:05:17.934-07:00Podpress<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/">Podpress</a> is a handy plugin that turns any WordPress installation into a great platform to host and distribute audio lecturecasts. It has an incredible array of features. With it, you can distribute your audio lecturecasts on your WordPress blog (complete with a fully featured and incredibly configurable media player). It can also generate the necessary RSS feed to list your audio lecturecasts on iTunes (and allow you to exert complete control over how they will look on iTunes). One of the other great added features is that Podpress allows you to visualise (via an array of cool graphs) download statistics of each lecturecast. All in all, Podpress is pretty much the only solution you'll ever need if you want to distribute audio lecturecasts (as long as you are doing so from a WordPress site, that is).<br /><br />(taken from http://chronicle.com/blogPost/5-Lecturecasting-Tools-That-I/25722/)NISnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-90904707306059873102010-01-13T13:14:00.001-08:002011-03-30T07:05:55.289-07:00Further comments on new blackboard<div class="Section1"><div class="MsoNormal">It took me a while but now I understand the logic of this product.&nbsp; So a virtue is that the look and feel of most courses will be similar/identicial varying only by what tools are enabled and what modules the instructor chooses to include on the homepage.&nbsp; The visual editor appears robust.&nbsp; When you turn it off you can do html and thus embed.&nbsp; Here are some vices.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">a.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>&nbsp;There seems to be some redundancy of tools.&nbsp; What they call journals looks like blogs (except maybe private, though it can be made public).&nbsp; &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">b.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>There is no digest form of the email update for&nbsp; discussion.&nbsp; So you either get everything, pos by post, or you get nothing.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">c.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>It really doesn’t want you to use external tools for communicating, though you can do it as a url.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">d.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>While the instructor can create contacts (presumably for himself and the TAs) students don’t have an analogous capability.&nbsp; So they don’t seem to be able to upload a picture of themselves or provide a bio sketch. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">e.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Instructors have to empower everything.&nbsp; Students can’t do it themselves.&nbsp; Say a class has students working in group.&nbsp; The instructor has to create those groups and then enable tools for the groups.&nbsp; The students can’t do that on their own.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So still some typical LMS issues.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Lanny<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>eLearning Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05695905203841394304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-34894887646557155252010-01-06T15:07:00.001-08:002011-03-30T07:07:21.968-07:00getting results from test (quiz) in blackboard<div class="Section1"><div class="MsoNormal">You can get the results via export of a file, but it looks terrible and not useful.&nbsp; The results from a survey seem to come in ok.&nbsp; There are redundant columns, but that can be readily managed.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div></div>eLearning Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05695905203841394304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-70632530956209215812010-01-06T11:29:00.001-08:002011-03-30T07:07:36.335-07:00respondus actually worked<div class="Section1"><div class="MsoNormal">It gave an error message but the quiz is there in the blackboard server. &nbsp;&nbsp;I then made Norma a student in my class site and have been using here login in student mode.&nbsp; &nbsp;I had her take the quizzes I made and write a discussion post, but I couldn’t figure out how to see the actual submissions for the quizzes.&nbsp; I will try now with a survey.&nbsp; Then I’m going to do something else, so as not to chew up the whole day with this.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>eLearning Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05695905203841394304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-79658216749335079692010-01-06T09:34:00.001-08:002011-03-30T07:07:53.830-07:00editing questions<div class="Section1"><div class="MsoNormal">I made a question with multiple fill in the blanks using a table.&nbsp; There was an error in the title.&nbsp; I tried to change the title.&nbsp; It didn’t seem to accept the change.&nbsp; Also, one has to go through three screens to get this thing to work.&nbsp; That isn’t good.&nbsp; I wonder if this works ok with respondus.&nbsp; Otherwise, trouble. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>eLearning Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05695905203841394304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100174911577453716.post-85950184158683023652009-10-16T11:54:00.000-07:002011-03-30T07:18:58.264-07:00DocVerse for document sharingDocVerse is a document sharing tool that is an add-in for MS Office. Saving a document in any MS Office app will automatically update a secure web version of the document that can be shared by sending others a link. It is different from Google Docs because it allows you to edit the docs in their native app. It also creates a discussion area for each doc and keeps track of versions.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.docverse.com/">www.docverse.com</a><br />JilleLearning Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05695905203841394304noreply@blogger.com0